When everything gets overwhelming, I make a point to seek out the natural world.
The trees and mountains stand witness to the fact that every despot and petty tyrant is nothing to the grandness of it all.
It truly is healing to me.
Blue Mountain - Missoula, Montana
Not gonna lie, it's really good to see Obama saying not to capitulate and to lose your federal funds instead of doing fascism willingly.
Too many organizations have been throwing LGBTQ+ people under the bus to save their funding from Trump.
They still lose their funding, I might add.
Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. 🩷🤍💙
Do iiit. And show me too. Lol.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN CASE OF ICE: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:
DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR. ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge. Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door. NO ABRAS TU PUERTA. ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.
ASK THEM TO LEAVE. If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission. 2 PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN. Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.
REMAIN SILENT. You have the right to remain silent. If the agents ask you questions, tell them, "I wish to remain silent." PERMANECE EN SILENCIO. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio. Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles: "Deseo permanecer en silencio".
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
People are boycotting Coca-Cola products because of their support of Trump.
I see droves of my trans brothers and sisters making plans and raising money to flee. Passports being denied. This isn't America. This is already something else.
Damnit Coca-Cola. I'm so not a Pepsi person.
Old enough to remember when they kicked my wife out for "decorum" for stating that anti-trans laws harm trans kids.
Now you got Nancy Mace out there yelling "tranny tranny tranny" into the microphone.
If I hear these hateful people say tr*nny one more time, I'm gonna start flipping tables.
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
Off to commit tomfoolery xox
For those unaware, in 1933, the first major Nazi book burning was of the first 30 years of research into trans and queer people, far before the concentration camps.
Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same.
hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...
These are the same picture.
Can @andybeshearky.bsky.social start doing daily briefings again to get us through these "unprecedented times". I need someone to balance out the chaos. I need his catch phrases back in my life. "You can't be doing that!"
How is someone supposed to quit smoking in this political environment?! I went two days before I gave in to the chaos.
So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities.
When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
Major news:
Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth.
It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle"
I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades.
Shameful.
Want to advocate for yourself, your friends or your favorite causes? Want to push for or against a bill? Just want to be more plugged into state politics this year? ✍️ @oliviakrauth.bsky.social queerkentucky.com/breaking-it-...
Though the government can make it more difficult for trans people to navigate certain spaces, they cannot decide who you are or how you identify. Here's how trans people can protect themselves now that Trump is in office. ⤵️
I know I need to consume less media. But I can't rip my eyes away from the horrors.
Ways to show up for our trans community beyond #solidarity and #iseeyou posts:
Donate to @aclu.org/ @hrc.org
Support trans artists & businesses
Help fund gender-affirming care
Rent to trans tenants & hire trans employees
#transrightsarehumanrights #webelongtoeachother #translivesmatter
1/ Bureaucracy is never fun, but for trans people, it can be downright hostile. With just days until Trump takes power, the Biden administration quietly added a major hurdle to updating Social Security documents. 🧵
I'm gonna need @cunkonlife.bsky.social to start reading the news to me in her voice. I firmly believe I could survive the next 4 years under those circumstances.
I sometimes sing my own name to the tune of that song. 😅🤣
Starting over on a new social media in my thirties feels a bit overwhelming, but if I can learn to code on MySpace at 16 to get the perfect MCR background I think I can handle this.
